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The objective of academic training is to prepare midwives as independent healthcare professionals to make a substantial contribution to the healthcare of women in their reproductive years as well as to the health of their children and families. This article therefore describes the professional and educational requirements derived from the legal midwifery competencies within the new midwifery act. Furthermore, it identifies the conditions that need to be established to enable midwives in Germany to practise to their full scope in compliance with statutory responsibilities. Educational science, academic efforts, policymaking and accompanying research should work in synergy. This in turn enables midwives to achieve the maximum scope of their skills, with the objective of promoting physiological pregnancies and births. Consequently, it can strengthen early parenthood in alignment with the national health objectives of “health around childbirth”.The academisation of the midwifery profession presents a profound opportunity for professional development in Germany. It is essential that midwives receive training based on the principles of educational science and care structures that are yet to be developed. This can enable them to perform within the wide range of their professional tasks to the highest standards, thereby ensuring the optimal care of their clients. Moreover, there is a chance to implement sustainable improvements in healthcare provision for women and their families during the reproductive phase and the period of parenthood in Germany.

The current situation in Germany is characterised by significant differences between the two types of higher education institutions offering bachelor's degree programmes in midwifery at both universities of applied sciences and universities. These differences are noticeable in admission procedures, resource allocation, content focus and competence assessment at the respective institutions, which in turn result in heterogeneous study experiences. This article highlights the challenges currently facing bachelor degree programmes and the academic qualification of midwives, and identifies future requirements for the development of degree programmes in theory and practice as well as theory-practice transfer, and assessment formats. Furthermore, this article covers the content-related and structural-organisational requirements to develop in-depth academic skills grounded in theory teaching, the facilitation of clinical placements at an academic level, the training of qualified practical instructors and the development of applicable competence-based assessment formats, especially for the state exam.The development of a standardised, high-quality academic education for midwives in Germany requires networking of the different academic sites/locations to exchange experiences in teaching/learning and assessment formats. Furthermore, it can facilitate the development of a standardised competence-oriented model and core curriculum as well as the definition of quality criteria and standards for study programmes of midwifery science. The Midwifery Science Committee (AHW) in the DACH Assoviation for Medical Education (GMA) offers an optimal platform for cooperation between the different universities. The existing challenges for the further professional development of midwives can only be overcome by collaboration and pooled expertise.

In dieser Querschnittsstudie wurde die Anzahl der Patienten mit einer Diagnose von Infektionen der oberen Atemwege (= Upper Respiratory Tract Infections, URTI) und mit Antibiotikaverordnungen aus der Disease Analyzer Datenbank (IQVIA) zwischen Januar 2019 und Dezember 2022 ausgewertet. Die Anzahl der Patienten mit URTI-Diagnosen und Antibiotikaverordnungen pro Praxis sowie die Dauer der Krankschreibung pro Patienten wurden im Zeitverlauf verglichen. Insgesamt wurden 1.403.907 Patienten aus Hausarztarztpraxen eingeschlossen, von denen 48% weiblich waren. Die Anzahl der URTI-Patienten pro Praxis war im Jahr 2022 signifikant höher als im Jahr 2019 (732 vs. 464, 58%, p

Objectives: Physicians and psychologists at psychiatric university hospitals are assigned teaching tasks from the first day of work without necessarily having the prerequisite training in teaching methods. This exploratory survey provides a needs-based analysis for the prospective didactic training of physicians and psychologists at psychiatric hospitals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Methods: An online questionnaire was distributed at medical schools via email in German-speaking countries in Europe. All physicians involved in teaching medical students at psychiatry faculties were eligible to participate in the survey. Participants were further requested to recruit eligible participants (snowball sampling). Responses were analyzed descriptively, and differences between groups were calculated using nonparametric Mann-Whitney U tests (p

Das nur wenige Kilometer nördlich von Longyearbyen auf der anderen Seite des Adventfjords gelegene Advent City war die erste Steinkohlemine auf Spitzbergen, die ganzjährig in Betrieb war und bereits fünf Jahre nach der Aufnahme der Arbeiten aufgrund mangelnder Profitabilität wieder aufgegeben wurde. Während Teile der Siedlung seit über hundert Jahren dem Verfall überlassen werden, wurden viele der Gebäude schon kurz nach der Aufgabe der Bergbautätigkeit an anderer Stelle wiederrichtet und stehen größtenteils heute noch an ihrer neuen Position. Neben den Überresten von Gebäuden und technischen Installationen vor Ort sowie den noch erhaltenen Holzhütten, haben sich eine ganze Reihe von historischen Photographien erhalten, die uns ein sehr genaues Bild der Siedlung zeigen. Aus den unterschiedlichen Quellen wurde ein vollständiges 3D-Modell von Advent City entwickelt, das die britische Mine zum Zeitpunkt ihres Betriebs Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts zeigt. Dieses Modell wurde anschließend in eine Virtual Reality Anwendung überführt, welche dem Nutzer das immersive Erleben der Siedlung erlaubt. Wir werden in unserem Beitrag die Genese des 3D-Modells sowie der VR-Umgebung eingehend besprechen und anschließend den Nutzen einer derartigen digitalen Welt für die Vermittlung der Ergebnisse der polararchäologischen Forschung Studierende, Lehrende, Schülerinnen und Schüler sowie die interessierte Öffentlichkeit diskutieren.

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